{"id":2260,"date":"2018-03-13T23:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T03:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2018-03-13T23:03:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T03:03:32","slug":"topsy-turvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"Topsy-Turvy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember topsy-turvy dolls? A bit like a Pushmepullyou from the story of Dr. Dolittle.<\/p>\n<p>Do little, however, is rarely my modus operandi&#8230;quite the opposite, I tend to go overboard. So when&#8211;a long time ago, I took a class from one of the top dollmakers in the world, Elinor Peace Bailey, I didn&#8217;t make a doll from one of her kits. I didn&#8217;t make a doll&#8230;I made a topsy turvy doll. Here&#8217;s the basic body:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2261 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/doll-body-700x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/doll-body-700x433.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/doll-body-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/doll-body-768x475.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Sun&#8217;s sun-dress, made today from a pillowcase that my grandmother had, and the Moon&#8217;s nightshirt:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2263 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/sun-dress2-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/sun-dress2-525x700.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/sun-dress2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/sun-dress2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2264 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/night-shirt-556x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/night-shirt-556x700.jpg 556w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/night-shirt-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/night-shirt-768x967.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Takes me back to my girlhood. I never played with dolls, but I made dolls and made costumes for them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2265 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/sunchair5-e1520995801853-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/sunchair5-e1520995801853-525x700.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/sunchair5-e1520995801853-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/sunchair5-e1520995801853-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2266 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/moonface-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/moonface-525x700.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/moonface-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/moonface-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Always nice to have a reason to finish a project. This topsy turvy doll is headed&#8211;pun intended&#8211;to a baby who is the sun, moon, and stars to her family. Only hope the dog doesn&#8217;t chew it up before she can enjoy it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember topsy-turvy dolls? A bit like a Pushmepullyou from the story of Dr. Dolittle. Do little, however, is rarely my modus operandi&#8230;quite the opposite, I tend to go overboard. So when&#8211;a long time ago, I took a class from one of the top dollmakers in the world, Elinor Peace Bailey, I didn&#8217;t make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,19,13,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antique-vintage","category-family","category-fashion-or-costume","category-gift-making","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Ej5z-As","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}